Sunday, May 31, 2015

The Adjusters #60 (Part 2 of 2)

Again, sorry for the delay. Here's the end of Book V. And it's about f*****g time, I know!




60

Intermezzo: Jennifer Hansen

(Part 2 of 2)


When I come to, my body is already awake. I can’t explain it better: I wake up, and there’s no need to open my eyes, for they’re already open. And the light is blazing and blinds me, and my reflex is to shut them, and much to my surprise, they close.

I’m moving. I’m in a car. I open my eyes, and I can see an urban landscape out of the window. Tall buildings, people walking around, stores, signs. All in English. I haven’t been outside since forever—the closest I recall was the windows at the Institute, through which you could see the beautiful wilderness around the building.

The sun is high in the air, but it feels cold. The heater is on in the car. I’m in the back seat, diagonal from the driver, a man, sporting driving gloves. Asian. I can only see his profile. He has a long ugly scar running the side of his face, jagged and discolored compared to the rest of his impassible face. With his sunglasses, it makes him look terrible.

I try to move my head, and it does. My arms as well. My breath catches. I’m fighting the instinct to just reach madly for the door handle and get out of the car. Fight the panic, Jenn. This might be your chance. Don’t fuck it up.

Instead, I reach for the door handle slowly. I’m trying to determine if the door is locked, and more importantly, whether I can unlock it. I try to control my breath. Don’t let the driver figure out what I’m trying to do.

I get my hand near the handle, still looking outside as though fascinated by what I’m seeing—I think it’s New York City, which I visited when I was younger, but haven’t been to since, all the signs about the Big Apple being a dead giveaway—and try to hook my fingers around the hardened plastic.

But something won’t let me. My fingers do not obey me. Try as I might, they won’t catch the door handle. My breath picks up, and the man notices, for he gives me a side glance. I drop my arm, and turn to him.

Can I talk?

“Where are we going?” I ask, and I’m surprised I can say anything. There’s no one else inside me but me, no one else that I can feel, like Jennie, or anything.

The man turns his head toward me for a second, gives me a look that freezes my blood, and never says a word. The scar on the side of his face catches the sunlight in a way that’s disturbing. His expression is completely blank. I can’t see his eyes through his sunglasses, but I know they are cold.

I lean back into the seat, look outside, take it all in. My body will let me do some things, but not others. I want to ask the man questions, but I’m frightened. Still under the shock, I think.

A blur of memories, the last few things I remember from earlier. It’s still a fog, as if it was a dream. But I remember my old room, hiding there after talking with… Daniel! Yes, I remember dreaming of him, while I was having sex—or someone was having sex, and Biff too, and others, countless others, fucking me and—

We’re wiping her mind.

The words cut through the fog like a knife through butter, and I feel panic rising again.

And then I feel silly because clearly, my mind has not been wiped.

I’m here, and I’m me. I’m still me. Whatever they did, they did not destroy me.

I can’t control my body, not in any sense, though, I’m running utterly and completely on automatic, but on automatic without a personality, without an outlet. It’s weird, weird and scary. I cast about inside, and where I would find someone like Jennie, all I feel is a blank, a void, a hole in my mind that I fear will swallow me if I get too close, and so I don’t. It’s calling to me.

There’s nothing there. That’s where the personality that Biff programmed into me, the quirks and the blocks that he imposed, everything that he did to mold me into the image of the perfect me that he wanted, and now it’s all gone, replace by… by nothingness.

I don’t know whether to be ecstatic or terrified—the old blocks seem to be gone, the inability to talk about or to Daniel, the inability to ask for help, the inability to tell anyone what had happened to me, about Biff, about the programming, about anything.

Except I know I still can’t do any of those things. Because doing those things would require going through the dark chasm before me, and I don’t know how I know but if I step a metaphorical foot in there, I’ll be swallowed up and digested like Jennie was before me.

But I can still do little things. I can listen. I can watch. Oddly, I think I can control my eyes, my head, but only if I observe. I try to play a game—look left for yes, right for no—and my head does not obey. I can only be passive.

How does it know what’s being passive and what’s not? How does it know that I’m trying to convey a message?

But then, of course, it’s obvious. It’s in my head, that’s why. In fact, it is my head. Who better to control what I think, feel, do? Who better to understand my intent? Me. Well, a version of me. Or at least, something there in me, maybe sitting in the middle of that black gaping hole in front of me, keeping an eye on everything and keeping me in line.

Does it know I’m here? Does it care?

I focus on the outside world—we’re entering a more industrial zone, the stores and restaurants and residences having given way to larger buildings, warehouses, old factories. An area still waiting for gentrification.

The man, who still hasn’t said a word, takes a series of turns, and I try to pay attention because I’ve read too many books where the heroine can tell rescuers where she’s being held because she’s recorded and figured out the path that her abductors took, but it’s much easier written than done, and I soon get lost.

It’s as we round a small warehouse on a deserted street and go in the back—no identification that I can see, no number, no street signs, just graffiti and a large tag in a rainbow of colors on the side of the building—it’s as we round the back that I register what I’m wearing. The last thing I recall wearing was the blue patient uniform at the Institute.

It’s a white dress, short, much too short for the season, since it’s a summer dress, flighty and without much material to it. It barely reaches mid-thigh, and I’m showing a lot of skin. That’s hardly surprising, and that it doesn’t surprise me is depressing in a way that I push to the back of my head because I can feel tears forming back there and I need to control myself—I need to pay attention.

Peering down, I see that the front of the dress dips down extremely low, cut so as to accentuate my breasts and the valley between them. Thin straps over the shoulders, my hair down. No bra I can see or feel. It’s a daring dress, extremely daring in fact, but I can tell that the cut is a good cut—this is quality material. And it seems to fit me just right. Which is disturbing for so many reasons that I don’t know where to start.

I have no time to ponder any of that, because the car stops behind a tall fence, hidden from the street, on the side of the warehouse. The man gets out and, opens my door from outside. All without saying a word. He holds out a hand.

I take it, and get out of the car by swiveling my legs out first before stepping out. It’s not my choice, but I make a production out of it as I emerge. The first thing that strikes me is that whomever chose my shoes chose well. They are tall high heels, white like the dress, but comfortable, even though they’re as tall as I’ve ever worn them.

The second thing that strikes me is that the man—whose facial scar is mirrored on the other side of his face, forming a ghostly pale pair of brackets around his features, ridged as though worms are burrowing their way underneath the skin—the man does not look at my legs, or my chest, or anything. And the way I moved was meant to attract attention—whomever programmed me made sure that I would move to attract male attention.

But he does not look at me. He heads to a small staircase leading to a metal door. I follow, my hand in his, my heels making a hollow sound on the concrete.

The door opens as we reach the foot of the steps and a man—dressed well, but so large that the suit he wears threatens to rip about his shoulder as he stretches to hold the door open—and he makes me think on the spot of an enforcer for a crime family. I want to laugh, but I don’t.

He holds the door open as we go up the stairs and he nods to Scarface but his eyes never leave my legs. If Scarface did not even acknowledge my body, this gorilla takes it in enough for three. I can feel his eyes on my skin like a wet tongue, from my legs up to my chest and down again, never reaching my face, probably not caring one iota for it.

I half expect him to slap my butt and grunt as I walk past, but he doesn’t, though his eyes on my ass are just as unavoidable. And whomever is driving my body puts an extra twist in her step to make sure that my hips move accordingly, giving an even more enticing view. I groan inside, but it’s nothing that I haven’t lived through with Biff, and at least I’m not reaching over and kissing the disgusting bastard.

There are two other men inside, around a small table, playing cards, as burly as the first man, who closes the door behind him. Normally, I would be frightened—a pretty young girl with three large men with a clear aura of aggressiveness around them is an easy prey, especially dressed like I am—and I’m not entirely sure how this body of mine would react were they to pounce on me.

But if there’s one thing that’s clearer than the fact that they look at me like a piece of meat that they’d like nothing better than to sink their teeth into—the two men have dropped their cards and are ogling me without even attempting to hide it, a knowing grin on their face, spreading their legs as if to unconsciously advertise what they’d like to do to me—if there’s one thing that’s clearer than that it’s that they’re afraid of Scarface, who’s standing beside me, unnaturally straight, his hands by his side, his destroyed face unmoving as he eyes the two men by the table.

A short silence that feels longer than it probably is, and then one of the men nods. “That the new chick?”

I’m so tense that if I had any sort of control over my mouth I’d burst out laughing, before screaming my head off. What do you think, moron? Gorilla laughs wetly behind me. I feel his eyes on me, slithering like leeches.

“She’s fucking hot,” he says. He has an accent that I can’t place. I concentrate on it, because what else is there to do, except panic?

Scarface remains unmoving, and from the corner of my eyes I see him make a motion with his head without any movement at all. I can’t figure out what he did, if he even did something, but the man that first spoke stands up. “The boss is expecting you.”

“You can leave the babe with us, you know? We’ll take good care of her.” That wet laugh again.

The man in front of us smiles, and gives me another up and down before starting off toward a longer staircase in the corner of the room. We head up, the man leading the way, me right behind, and then Scarface. I’m glad that he’s there, blocking me from Gorilla, especially since my body is swaying raunchily on every step now that there are men around to watch me. I can even feel my pussy dampen, not unlike what Biff programmed into me, but much more subdued than it ever was with him.

All I know is that I’m glad Jennie’s not here, because she would have drooled at the thought of parting her legs for those three men, begging like a starving kitten for them to pound her into mindless oblivion.

But Jennie is no more.

The man leads us down a hallway and stops by a door and knocks on it. Upon hearing a muffled “come in,” he opens he and lets Scarface through first—and I notice the step back he takes as he does so—before letting me through as well.

His eyes never leave my breasts—not surprising given the amount of cleavage I’m showing in this dress and the perspective he has—getting an eyeful and not making any attempt at hiding it.

The old flush is there, the arousal at being made into an object being looked at, admired, lusted over. I can appreciate the difference between this and Biff’s programming better—Biff’s instructions were a sledgehammer hitting full force every time, exhaustingly, relentlessly.

This one is… more subtle. It’s a warmth in my blood, a tiny tingle, an itch deep in my pussy, a slight dampening. This man is eyeing me, ogling me, and my body responds as if I were starting to be attracted to him I’m not, but I watch with fascination as my body gives him a side glance and a wink, along with an imperceptible straightening of my back that pushes my chest out.

The room he ushers us in looks like an office, and a boring one at that. It overlooks the warehouse floor though an immense window. The room itself is large and functional, without any niceties but an old couch in one corner. There’s a man behind a steel desk, working on a laptop and a pile of old-fashioned accounting books—dark suit, thinning hair, small rimless glasses. He’s peering at numbers with a slight frown on his face, and I have the feeling that the frown is pretty much imprinted on his skin by now. It’s just that kind of face.

He doesn’t look up when we enter the room, even as the man who escorted us closes the door behind us. He himself remains outside. I’m glad of that.

Accountant Man behind the desk finally looks up, although I can tell that he was just waiting until he felt the time was right before acknowledging our presence. A classic power play. It’s weird what you notice when you have no choice but to observe.

Scarface next to me is standing at attention, straight but relaxed. He does not seem anxious. He must have realized the same things I have. But I cannot read anything in his face.

“Thien,” Accountant Man says when he looks up at us. “So good to see you.”

Thien. I’ll remember the name.

Scarface—Thien—nods once, and still does not talk. Accountant Man stands up, and he finally looks at me, though I can tell he had been looking at me earlier as well, just from the corner of his eye. A girl always knows when she’s being checked out.

He gets around the desk. He’s short. Short and a bit rotund. He’s a caricature of every single accountant the world over. He’s eyeing me with squinting eyes behind his glasses, and his stare is both appreciative and evaluative.

“Your boss told mine that you had something special for us tonight,” the man says, approaching me. My body, of its own volition stands a bit straighter, breasts thrust out, legs slightly apart. Presenting itself.

He’s close. He smells good—cologne of some sort. Smells expensive. It’s weird what you notice under stress. His suit is a good cut, fits him perfectly well. A nice tie. His glasses even look expensive, though it’s hard to tell sometimes. Gold watch around his wrist. He looks at my face, intently, then his eyes dip down to my cleavage, and he circles me, looking me closely from all angles. Thien remains impassible throughout, keeping an eye on the man, barely glancing at me. As near as I can tell, I don’t exist for him.

“I see what you mean. She’s particularly… fetching. And she’s been adjusted like the others? That’s what you call it, right, adjusted?”

Thien nods once again.

“Same codes?”

Another nod.

“You know what I like about you, Thien? You’re a riveting conversationalist.” Accountant Man’s laugh is more like a bark, and it’s clear that I just heard one of his favorite jokes.

Thien doesn’t react. Not a blink. Merely his impassible scarred face. He’s less scary now, at least physically speaking—one gets used to anything, I guess.

“What’s her name?”

Thien pulls a smartphone out from his jacket pocket. Without looking, he thumbs a spot on its front pane. A clipped, artificial, British-accented voice emerges from the device. “Jennie.”

“Jennie. Very well, then,” the man says, having completed his circuit around me, having examined me like a piece of ware at a stall that he was considering purchasing. I don’t know what’s going, but I fear I’m not far off the mark. I should be a lot more upset than I am, which is a disturbing thought in and of itself. “The usual deal, you leave her with me, I test her, and we settle our accounts later?”

Something runs across Thien’s face, a flicker of annoyance. Another thumb press on the device. The same clipped British voice. “The deal is half upon delivery, half upon successful testing.” I know it’s silly given the situation, but I can’t help wonder to what extent he has planned this conversation and how many alternative responses he has programmed into his phone.

Accountant Man sighs and raises his hands in a gesture of surrender. “Of course I know the deal. Your sense of humor, Thien, that’s the other thing I like about you. You must be a hit at parties.”

he walks to a corner and pulls open a panel to reveal a safe. He thumbs it and unlocks it and from inside pulls out a thick envelope. He hands it over to Thien, who pockets it.

“You’re not going to count it?”

There was merely a glance at that comment, no need for conversation. The menace in that look was clear, without a single change of expression. I fantasize for a second that Accountant Man has messed something up so that Scarface would come back and slit the man’s throat, but even I know there’s little chance of that.

“Well, all’s good then,” the man says, somewhat nervously. “The arrangement is to wire the rest of the money once we’ve tested her out. So sometimes tonight, if all goes well.”

Thien nods once, and then stares at the hand that the man is extending. After two beats, he shakes the proffered hand, and takes his leave. I did not realize I much I was relying on his presence because as soon as the door closes back behind him, I feel so alone that if not the blankness in my mind that offers a form of gentle reassurance, I’d be freaking out something fierce right now.

Accountant Man stands before me, waiting. He just drinks me in, and his look is definitely a lot more perverted than earlier when Thien was here. He’s looking me up and down freely, not evaluating this time, but appreciating.

After maybe two minutes, he gets closer, and puts a hand on one of my breasts, through my dress. My body reacts—it feels good—but less than I expected, a buzz, nothing more. I do not try to get away—I could not anyway. I merely stand there, placidly, while his hand kneads my breast harder and harder.

“You’re a pretty bitch,” he says, his eyes suddenly turning mean. “You’re going to be very good for business.” His hand slips underneath my dress and cups my bare flesh. His hands are warm and clammy.

He’s getting excited, that’s obvious—his breathing is rapid, he’s sweating, his glasses are sliding off his nose. He’s close to me, his body against my side.

His hand is grasping my breast hard now, squeezing it, alternating between grabbing a palmful and tweaking my nipple, which hardens under the assault.

Suddenly, he reaches forward and he licks the side of my face, clear from my jaw to my temple, his tongue warm and wet against my skin. I shiver internally, but my body only buzzes slightly with arousal, passively taking in the aggression. No feelings coming from the black hole in my mind. A blankness that is both terrifying and soothing.

Accountant Man steps back, wiping his hands, looking me up and down again. “Let’s have a look at what else you’re hiding under there.”

He gets in front of me and kneels down, the movement causing a sharp exhale of air. But down he goes, and he runs his hands up my naked legs to the hem of my dress, and pauses there for a few seconds, clearly savoring the moment.

Licking his lips, he slides his hands underneath the material and pulls down my underwear, slowly, his eyes closing as it to concentrate all of his attention on the sensation in his fingers.

He pulls down my underwear—white, like my dress, a wispy pair of panties that is more lace than anything else—to my ankles, and my body automatically lifts one foot then the next so that he can toss them aside.

He reaches up to push up my dress, unable to resist. “My, my, my,” he says. “Look at that.” I know exactly what he’s looking at. “Who’s Biff?” he looks up, but does not wait for an answer—I don’t know if I’d been able to answer anyway. “Lucky fellow. Well,” he makes a face, “maybe not so lucky, because you’re here and he’s not, right?” He grins at his own joke. “So you’re a kinky bitch, huh?”

Without any prompting, he slips two fingers between my pussy lips and pushes up, and they sink in without any difficult because my body is aroused, a low-level arousal that is nevertheless perfectly effective. And while I can’t enjoy what he’s doing because of all the obvious reasons, I also cannot deny that the physical sensations are pleasurable. Whatever they did to me, they certainly heightened my body sensations.

He spends a few minutes fucking me with two fingers, his eyes staring straight at my crotch, attentive, intense. In and out, juices starting to coat his hand. My hips are swaying gently, and my body is enjoying the attention, once in a while a moan escapes my lips that makes him smile. “You like that, don’t you?”

It’s largely rhetorical I know, but I answer, “Yes.” It’s not me—it’s whatever blank that’s there in my mind in charge of these automatic responses, and it’s using a neutral placid voice, like the rest of my body’s attitude. I can’t help but wonder what the fuck they—whomever they are—did to me.

I don’t know if that’s what does it for him, but he gets a look in his eyes and he dives into my crotch after pulling his fingers out, licking up and down my slit in a way that is inexpert if enthusiastic. He french-kisses my pussy for a long time, his hands running up and down my legs, his nose pressing into my skin, and my body enjoys the sensations.

He pulls back, wipes his mouth with the back of his hand, and stays down there staring at me while he catches his breath. When he’s calmer, he stands up, straightens his tie, pats down his hair, adjusts his glasses.

“We’ve got plenty of time to play later,” he says with a smile. “But before that, I have to test you out. Lest my bosses think that I put pleasure before business.”

He stands before me. “So. Of the guys out there that you met as you came up, which is the one you like the least?”

I don’t expect that question. My body takes it in stride though—I know, I keep referring to it as my body, but I swear, there’s no personality associated with it at all, it’s a bit like when you’re so busy thinking about something that worries you and then you snap out of it and it’s been ten minutes and in the meantime you’ve been driving or something and clearly your body is able to put together all the correct moves to steer the car and deal with traffic and everything else that happens but you were not there consciously?—so my body takes the question in stride and answer what I know is of course the right answer, and it comes out of my mouth without any censorship. “The gorilla that opened the door first.”

The man barks out a laugh. “The gorilla! Nice! That’s perfect!” He turns to the door and shouts “Larry.”

The door opens. “Yes, boss?” There’s an expectant tone in his voice.

“Call up Franz.”

The man at the door looks disappointed and gives me a quick glance before nodding. “Yes, boss.”

I can hear the man shout “Franz! Get your ass up here!” and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Frank is Gorilla’s name. I wonder what’s going to happen—my body’s feeling pretty buzzed right now after the man’s fingering and licking, but unless Franz is into passive chicks, it’s not going to be fun for him. Not that I want to make it fun for anybody—quite the opposite.

Accountant Man turn to me, pulls out his phone, and looks up something. “Jennie, adjustment code R1, authorization 332565. Mode”, a pause, “girlfriend experience,” he adds with a smile.

There’s a click in my head when I hear these words, and while the blankness in the midst of my mind does not lift, does not change, there is a charge of energy in the background that was not there before. Anticipation.

A knock at the door. “Come in,” says Accountant Man with a grin.

Gorilla comes in, big and with a shit-eating grin on his face. His eyes slither over me and suddenly I’m worried—flashbacks of all those times where Biff just gave me away to random guys run through my head, and I’m still amazed that it doesn’t half bother me as much as it should have—you’d figure I’d have PTSD or something, but maybe it’s the drugs that they fed me at the Institute, or maybe it’s whatever was just done to me, but all I can feel is a mollified dread and the expectation of an unpleasant experience—I am much more detached than the situation warrants. Not that I have any choice in any of this, mind you.

“Jennie,” Accountant Man says, “please meet Franz, your date for the night.”

At his words, my world explodes. There’s no other word for it. It explodes. And when everything settles, the blankness that was there in my mind has been filled out by this welter of emotions and thoughts and images and dreams, and there’s another me there, a beautiful me, a friendly me, a loving me, and all of her—our—feelings are directed at Franz, who’s looking at me expectedly, still with his grin on his face.

And the feeling I get from inside me, which I have to fight for all it’s worth because it is overpowering—it is so much stronger, so much more defined, so much more swamping than what I felt when Biff used me—is that that smile that Franz has, that smile that I know is really a self-satisfied I’m-going-to-get-what-I-want grin, is just simply adorable because that’s the way Franz always looks at me, like I’m his one and only baby, the girl that he’s decided to take as his.

Those feelings are alien, I know, but they feel so real that they make my head spin for a second and they confuse me.

My body shifts slightly, relaxing, settling into a style, a rhythm. “Hey baby,” my mouth says, and I feel a smile forming on my lips. It’s because Franz is here. My Franz, here, with me, looking as cock-sure and as sweet as I remember him to be. My big burly sweetheart.

“Hey Jennie,” he says, his own smile getting wider. “Miss me?”

“You know I did, you fathead. Why did you leave me alone so long?” I take a step towards him, and slide my arms around his neck. I have to reach up as I always do, and that I’m wearing tall fuck-me heels, Franz’s favorites, helps because I’m pretty much as tall as he is now, if a third his size—my big strong man!

He kisses me, and I respond by slipping him some tongue, and our kiss gets real deep real fast and I’m pressing against him—or he’s squeezing me hard against him, I don’t know, I don’t care—and there’s no one else in this world for me but this hard strong body wrapped around me.

His hands are on my ass—Franz loves my ass, would spend all of his time pawing it and squeezing it and fucking it if I let him—and I push back against them, and moan in his mouth.

He pulls up my dress and his hands are on my bare skin now and they feel so good, grabbing my flesh—when he gives my cheek a slap I yelp and pull back, making sure to rub my crotch against his wonderful cock so hard in front of me—all hard because of me!

“Franz, baby, come on, he’s watching.” I glance to my left, where Franz’s boss, I don’t remember his name, is looking at us with what’s pretty clearly lust in his eyes.

“Oh don’t mind him. He’s not going to bother us. Come on, turn around, I’ve been wanting to fuck that sweet cunt of yours ever since you walked through the door.”

I shiver at his words—Franz loves to talk dirty, loves to treat me like I’m a little slut that he picked up in a bar, it fits so much into his manly man tough guy persona, and I admit it drives me crazy to think that he wants me and wants my body, and I groan and sway as he reaches up to grab one of my tits and squeezes it hard the way I can’t get enough of.

“Oh baby, you want to do it in front of him? While he watches?” It feels so kinky I nearly wet myself. My Franz has such crazy ideas sometimes!

“You love it and you know that. All you sluts get off by showing off anyway. Come on, turn around. Show me that fucking ass of yours.” He slaps me on the ass again, hard, and I squirm against him.

“Baby, you’re so fucking kinky!” And I kiss him again, hard, pushing my tongue so far down his mouth that it feels like I’m fucking him, and I can’t wait to feel his hard cock plowing deep inside me.

I turn around and make a shameless show of bending down to the table while lifting up my dress over my ass, flashing him my bare cunt. No panties, I never wear them with Franz because he likes easy access. I caress myself, running a hand between my cunt lips and finding them sensitive and engorged and ready for action, before spreading my legs and gently swaying my ass from side to side.

“Come fuck me, baby.”

Franz wastes no time and he’s got his pants around his ankles before he reaches me and I gasp when I feel his hot cock sliding over my cunt and pressing in and it’s as big and hard as I remember it to be and it spreads me open like a flower and it feels so fucking good.

“Fuck yeah,” Franz growls, and I respond in kind. “Fuck you feel nice!”

His words—and his cock, his wonderful hard cock—send shivers down my spine. I so love to make him happy! “You feel amazing too, baby, so fucking good!”

And then he takes me, pounding into me the way he usually does, hard and fast, those long feverish thrust that I love because they tell me that he finds me too hot to handle sitting inside me without pumping in and out of my cunt, and I thrust my ass back against him as he does, enjoying the moment, enjoying the feel of having him inside of me, making me his woman. Completely forgotten are the cold table on which I’m pressing my tits and Franz’s boss looking at us with his little piggy eyes, wishing he was as brutish as Franz, wishing I was his girlfriend so that he could take me the way Franz is taking me, claiming me, owning me.

I have my first orgasm when Franz starts slapping my ass, hard, not quite in time with his thrusts, and it’s pain and pleasure mixed in and it sends me over the edge in no time, between that and the relentless pounding he gives my hungry cunt.

I come for the second time when Franz’s wet fat thumb presses into my asshole. He loves assplay, and I love it because he loves it. I want to tilt my hips up to facilitate his entry, to show him I can be his good little anal girlfriend, but between his cock still pounding me and my orgasm ripping through me, I cannot summon the necessary coordination, and instead I just let Franz do what he does best, which is fuck me into oblivion.

I’m nearing my third big one when I feel him tense and I know he’s about to spurt out and I try to squeeze him inside me to make it even better for him since he’s given me so much pleasure already but he slaps me harder and pulls out and I have no time to whine because his gruff voice tells me that he wants to come all over my face.

I get to my knees in front of him faster than you can spell cum-craving, and I take his lovely fat cock in my hand and jack him off while looking up at him. He’s looking down at me, sweat pouring down his face, and it’s so fucking hot how crazy I made him. I use my free hand to push my dress down, freeing my tits, letting him ogle them in all of their glory. His eyes on me make me even hotter.

“You gonna cream all over my face, baby?” I egg him on as I stroke him faster. “You gonna cream all over my face like in the pornos? You want me to be your little pornstar girlfriend?”

He growls an indistinct “fuck yeah” as he pumps his hips and I swear his cock gets even fatter as I stroke him and I wonder how much cum he’s going to give me this time and before I can think much further he explodes and long streams of delicious jism spurt out and land on my face and streak my mouth and nose and eyes and I open my mouth to snatch some of them off as they fly and he’s covering me and it barely registers with me that I’ve got three fingers up my cunt and I’m coming for the third time.

I collapse on the floor panting as Franz staggers back, pulling up his pants and snorting like a horse after a race. I can barely think as Franz’s boss nods to Franz. “Good job. Thank you.”

“My pleasure, boss. You gonna stick around?”

A head shake. “No. I’ll be taking her. I’ll make sure that she’s fit to work at the House without any problem.”

“Looks fit enough to me,” Franz says with an adorable grin. “Is she…”

Franz is so cute the way he almost blushes when he asks whatever it is he’s asking, and I want to cuddle him and pet him and maybe get him to slide his cock inside me again.

Franz’s boss gives a little grin. “I don’t know if she’s going part of the bonus roster, but if she does, I’ll be sure to let you know.”

Franz’s smile grows wider still. “Thanks boss!”

Franz gives me a last glance before he turns to leave, and I give him a little wave, making a production out of spreading his cum all over my face as though it were skin cream.

Franz’s boss looks at me with bright eyes full of lust—I can tell, and why wouldn’t he, I’m a hot bitch that’s just gotten fucked good by her hung boyfriend—and nods. “Well done, Jennie. Welcome back.”

There’s something in the way he says that that just extinguishes me. I can’t use a different word for it. All color in the world, all emotions, all sparks just fade away and disappear, and suddenly there’s that blankness in the middle of my mind, that ethereal beckoning numbness that calls to me. And it’s like a spell wearing off, and I’m back, shaken, wondering what the hell happened.

This is so much stronger than whatever Biff ever did to me, that I’m stunned speechless. I’m going to lose myself is the thought that run non-stop through my mind.

Accountant Man is standing over me, looking at me with his evaluating eyes. He nods. “There’s a washroom right there. Clean yourself up. We’re going for a ride. I have more… tests for you.”

I shudder—if this was the first test, what are the others going to be like? I’m going to lose myself. As my body stands up obediently to go clean up the disgusting filth that Gorilla splashed all over my face, I hang on to the image of the room I grew up in, that safe place that reminds me who I really am, and I hang on to the image of Daniel, my love, hugging me in that same room, offering me warmth and solace.

“Welcome to the House of the Rising Sun,” I hear Accountant Man say under his breath as I walk away.


* * *


ENCRYPTED MESSAGE to Patrick Dee

I successfully delivered the latest girl to the Connelly Brothers’ man. The fund transfer was completed earlier today, and he expressed satisfaction with the delivery, both this one and the previous girls.

I want to register my discomfort once more at dealing with the Connelly Brothers. I understand why you feel we must do it, but I still think it is a bad idea.

Since I cannot change your mind, with your permission, I would like to work out contingency plans in case things go, as you say in this country, south. I would like to understand their organization, its strength and weaknesses. That should give us some idea where potential failures may come from, and how we might react to them and prevent them ruining your plans. Please acknowledge.

Regards, T


THE END of BOOK V

Saturday, May 16, 2015

The Adjusters #60 (Part 1 of 2)

Let's do this in small chunks again... I can't quite get it to work the way I want it to.


60

Intermezzo: Jennifer Hansen

(Part 1 of 2)

“Holy crap, look at those spikes!”

The voice is what finally pulls me out of that gray haze that’s been slowly oh so slowly lifting since I first woke up I don’t know how long ago.

My name is Jennifer Hansen, and my brain feels like mush. I have no idea how long I’ve been out, no idea where I am, no idea even how I’m doing. I can’t move, can’t open my eyes—even if I had the energy, it’s like my limbs were severed from my nervous system.

And then there’s the pain.

I don’t feel the pain directly, but it’s there all around me, and I feel someone feeling the pain—she’s screaming, really, because I’m calling it pain but agony might be more accurate—and I’m connected to her and I feel her pain, but it’s like I’m inside her, protected. There is pain, but it’s indirect, diffuse, the intellectual, emotional, empathetic response to pain, and not the nervous response to pain. It still freaks me out, though.

There are voices around me, hard to make out through the screams of pain that resonate inside my head. I realize who’s screaming, too, eventually. Jennie. Jennie is in agony. I can picture her clutching her head as though it’s about to split apart and give rise to a goddess, writhing agony at talons tearing at her mind.

Memories come back to me in pieces, like a movie reel running forward faster and faster. I’m at the Institute, awake and aware but unable to move, in a crazy coma. I’m woken up, and then there’s Richard, Mouse, Cassandra, Gutierrez—everyone in Blue Ward, a dysfunctional little family. My plan to escape. Then my plan to prevent Mouse from being taken away. My plan to get rid of Gutierrez.

And then it flashes in my mind, the last things I remember. Letting Gutierrez have his way with me as Mouse helps him, an elaborate trap to get him to abuse me on camera while the feed is redirected to a conference room within the Institute where executives are assembled—a desperate gambit to save my friend Mouse’s life. Gutierrez wanted to sell her.

Did it work thought? I have no idea. My last memory is fuzzy: I was fighting with Gutierrez after he discovered he had been played and then there was that lighting bolt right between my eyes, like a sharp spike had been shoved in, like my head was being ripped in half. But then everything went dark.

Even as it happened, even as I felt my head explode, I knew that Jennie was taking the brunt of the damage. While I experienced pain, I have no words to describe what Jennie went through.

Jennie. Jennie is, for lack of a better term, the personality that was programmed into me what feels like a lifetime ago. A slut, craving the touch of men, their hands, their mouths, their cocks. Never so happy as when she’s serving, doing what she’s told with sheer enthusiasm. I have no control over her—she’s the driver, I’m merely a passenger. There are drugs that seem to put her to sleep and let me take over, up to a point—so I discovered recently. But clearly, I’m not on them right now. Right now, Jennie’s driving. Well, screaming.

Biff. Biff did this to me. Biff programmed me back at Darnell University. An animal. He turned me into a slut, created Jennie, enslaved to his cock, a fuck toy for that spoiled bastard, a thing that he could use and abuse to his heart’s content.

Biff. He’s the one who created Jennie—the other me who’s not me while being me, in a way that I can’t understand, however hard I try to. I don’t know who I am, and who she is, and if we’re the same or not. She’s the one in charge of my body most of the time, the one that acts, that makes the decisions, and they’re influenced by what Biff did to her, did to us, did to me, influenced and guided and prescribed. And I’m there, in the back of her head, watching, feeling, partaking of whatever she does, the same but separate. But I’m really me. I’m me. She is… another part of me.

Biff. I can unleash all of my hate right now, let it pour forth like a geyser of loathing because Jennie is otherwise occupied by pain. Ordinarily, any thought of Biff on my part is met with immediate arousal from Jennie, and it’s incredibly frustrating to think of someone you hate only to find your pussy juicing up and your heart rate and your breath shortening because a craving for the man’s thick hard cock just skewered you like a kebab. But not now. Now, Jennie is writhing in agony, and I can bask in dark disturbing fantasies of revenge.

Everything else falls before that hate, gets wiped away, scrubbed clean. There is nothing in my heart right but dark raging flames. And Jennie screams in the background and fuels the fire, the perfect melodic accompaniment.

“Is she waking up?” Another voice. From my left this time. I got distracted and forgot all about the voices.

“Yeah, but that’s not normal, is it?” asks the first voice. I don’t recognize it. Someone new at the Institute? The fog is starting to clear, but not enough for me to think straight. And I’m getting some of the pain that Jennie is crumbling under. “Look at those spikes!”

“No, that’s definitely not normal. Never saw anything like that before.”

There’s shuffling behind me. I’m lying down, that much I can tell now.

“Okay, that’s pretty impressive. When did they start?”

“When the Polypherol took effect, I think. I guess. The timing’s about right.”

“What was she on before?”

“Analassillin. And Clorabarbitocin.”

“Powerful combo.”

“Yeah. Look, they’re getting stronger, too. Almost off the charts.”

I don’t know what they’re talking about, but Jennie’s screams are turning shrill in my head, and I start to feel it much more strongly too, as if she’s leaking pain as if she cannot contain it all and it’s pouring into me, and it’s terrifying me. I can’t move—Jennie’s driving, and when she’s driving, I can’t do squat—I know I would reaching for my own head and clutching it myself.

I feel fingers on my face, and one of my eyelids is pulled back and a bright light is shining through and it just adds to the pain. I’m starting to feel sick to my stomach.

“Her file said she suffered some sort of stroke. Is it worse than we thought?” I think that’s the man in front of me, shining a light in my eye speaking. I want to tell him I’m here, to help me, but I can’t, and if I could, it’d come out as a incoherent rant of pain. It’s getting stronger, lava spewing out of the volcano consuming Jennie and threatening to engulf and incinerate me as well. Please, don’t let it happen. Help me, help me!

“Can’t tell—I don’t know what to make of these numbers.” The man behind me is moving about, taping on a keyboard.

“Mmm… Well, that’s weird.” The man in front of my face has switched to my other eye, and closes it after blinding me once again. The fire in my brain is getting worse.

Jennie is dying, I can feel it. She’s burning up. I don’t know why I’m still here. I don’t know how long I’ll still be here.

“Never saw patterns like these. Well, aside from that, there. That I’ve seen. That’s a pain marker. And here, and here. Whatever else is going on in that head of hers, it’s painful, and it’s getting worse.”

“Is that going to mess up the process?”

“Don’t know. Depends on what’s causing it. If it’s neurological damage, then yeah, that may fuck things up badly. We don’t know where they found her, do we?”

“Of course not. The boss said to process her, and so we do.”

“Well, can’t guarantee anything. For all I know, she’s going to come out of the process a vegetable.”

“A good-looking vegetable though”

Laughter. “Yeah. Nice body, but a complete moron. Basically a blow-up doll.”

“Don’t knock it, there are guys that go for that sort of thing..”

“That’s sick.”

“Yeah. Takes all kinds, right? Okay, well, let’s go, then. You’re up on the new protocol?”

“I am. Not too different from the usual one. And I was part of the previous batch, too.”

I feel hands on me, and I realize I’m naked. But the hands don’t linger. Some sort of apparatus closes in on me. Just like that, I’m trapped. Something slips over my head, something presses against my breasts, against my crotch. I want to struggle, but can’t.

And through it all, the pain.

“Okay, injecting the euphoric agent. Let me record this.” There’s a pinch on my arm, followed by a sting that burns all the way up my shoulder.. More tapping on a keyboard. “Subject Jane Doe, recorded on file as Jennie, age unknown, estimated at twenty-three based on measurement. Five foot eight, one hundred and fifty pounds. Caucasian, brown hair, grey eyes. Lean body, good general health. No distinguishing features, save a tattoo over the pudenda, a script in dark red ink, spelling out Biff’s Cunt in an arc. The ink deterioration suggest less than one year old. Breasts average sized, estimated at C cups, with large nipples. Classically beautiful. Appeared to have suffered from a stroke, under medically-induced coma upon arrival.”

“She’s ready for Alpha Prime stage.”

Suddenly, the pain in my head lessens. It takes me by surprise so much that I want to cry, suddenly. Jennie is still suffering, though

“Check. Proceed.”

Tapping on the keyboard.

“Doesn’t it make you feel… I don’t know… bad?”

“What?”

“What we’re doing?”

“And what are we doing?”

“We’re wiping her mind.”

“Okay, first off, are you crazy? You don’t talk about shit like this here. Second, look at her, at her chart. She’s dead within the year, and not a pretty death at that. Her brain’s shot. Kaput. Mush. This gives her another chance at life.”

“Yeah, but what kind of life?”

“Boohoo. Look, this sort of talk won’t lead you far, not with the boss. He’ll have you out on your ass and reassigned to sanitary duty.”

The other man merely grunts. Meanwhile, I can only hear the words that have been said. We’re wiping her mind. Oh God!

“So I heard a rumor.”

“Come on, man, don’t.”

“I hear this is really based on Cargyle’s tech.”

“Fuck,” but there is a note of curiosity in his voice. “Really?”

The other man doesn’t answer. “Okay, that’s weird.”

“What now?”

“There are traces of Serum in her system.”

“Come again?”

“Traces of Serum. Faint, but unmistakeable. The board just lit up.”

“She’s already been adjusted before?”

“You didn’t see an adjustment mark on her, did you?”

“No, I didn’t.”

“Mmm…”

“Is this going to mess things up?”

“It shouldn’t. But I wonder why that’s not part of her file.”

“There was another one last time with something similar. Again, a no-name. Black chick. Nice tits on her too. Not a stroke victim, though she was messed up pretty bad. Schizophrenia or something like that. And she had traces of Serum. No adjustment tattoo.”

“What the fuck is going on? They never tell us anything.”

“That’s probably a good thing. I’m pretty sure that half the stuff we don’t really want to know about.”

“So how do we cover our asses?”

“We do our job. That’s how we cover our asses. Now can we get on with Alpha stage already?”

“Fine.”


* * *


Whatever they injected into me was powerful stuff. Jennie goes from screaming her head off inside our head to whimpering quietly and then moaning happily and lustily in no time whatsoever. And I can understand why—waves of sexual desires come crashing down upon me, and Jennie, on the front lines of the assault, has no protection, has no desire whatsoever to protect herself.

I can feel her struggle against our bounds, wanting to free her hands so that she could reach down and push her fingers deep into our pussy, scratch and destroy that itch that clamors for something—anything—to take care of it. Unbidden, the though of a large cock—so large as to take up the whole sky—comes to mind, and Jennie sees it and she lets out a moan of despair and yearning so deep that it pierces me with empathy. This is so much more powerful than any compulsion Biff has ever put into my head, so much beyond even what led to Jennie’s creation, it’s frightening. I know, without a doubt , that if a man offered to fuck me in exchange for cutting off one of my tits, that Jennie would happily go along with it, without hesitation, without any second thought—release is everything.

And I feel the surge of Jennie’s arousal—as it is my own—at that thought, of mutilating herself for sex, because of course she’s me and she can tell what I think—and she agrees wildly and adds images of her own, taking a big cock down her throat and massaging it endlessly until she passes out from lack of oxygen, or having her limbs hacked off and left a torso with tits and holes so that she can be picked up and fucked and dropped off like a discarded rag before the next man picks her up and fucks her as well, in whichever hole he pleases. It’s a small step from that to imagining herself fucked with a huge pike that ends up impaling her, in through her ass and out of her mouth.

This image of being impaled sends Jennie into a frenzy, shoots her up the arousal scale. I can feel her wanting to thrust her hips up, trying to meet that cock that she’s imagining, and suffer her disappointment of finding nothing, unable even to make the smallest movement, the bondage serving merely to arouse her further. It is a positive feedback loop.

And that pike that she’s imagining splitting her up shifts and morphs into a large, hard, demanding cock, breaching the walls of her pussy, tearing her up wider, and the images are incredibly sharp and I understand at some level that those images are not just in my mind’s eye but that I can see them, right there, that the darkness that has engulfed me until now is filled with ghostly shapes, moving, shifting, dancing, and one of them is indeed a large cock—beautiful and mouth-wateringly hard—pushing into a shaved pussy and Jennie moans at the sight and I can understand her because it feels so fucking good, so real, like something was really pushing inside me.

That pussy up there, getting fucked in front of my eyes, that shaved perfect pussy, skewered alive, has a tattoo running over the front of it, in a graceful arc over the mons, lettered in dark red, a script that I know but so well, Biff’s Cunt—I recall the man that tattooed it there too, an artist that really loved his work, only slightly disturbed by the fact that a beautiful woman in front of him with her leg spread was begging him to mark her, only barely distracted by the juices running down her gash because that was what Biff wanted, to see me aroused by the artist, and I was, and so it’s my pussy up there getting fucked hard and Jennie knows it and she loves it and she’s starting to whimper those little words, those “fuck that cock… fuck that hard cock… fuck that hard cock with that tight cunt… fuck that hard cock with that tight juicy hungry little cunt…”

It’s almost a song—repeated often enough any sentence takes on a melody of it own—and it’s almost catchy and I can feel myself wanting to hum along, “Fuck that hard cock… fuck that hard cock with that tight cunt… fuck that hard cunt with that tight juicy hungry cunt…” And the images before go with the song, timed perfectly, each thrust of the shaft matching the accents, the crescendo, the ebbs and flows of the music, plowing through that pussy—my pussy, with that fucking tattoo over it, inviting, marking me, making it clear what sort of girl I am, and then there are flashes all around me, flashes of girls dressed scantily, in various poses, mixed in with the feelings. And those girls are me, but they’re not me, and I can feel Jennie longing to be them, to forget herself in them.

We’re wiping her mind.

The full impact hits me. The overpowering sense of lust that’s threatening to obliterate everything including self-respect and self-preservation, these images, these sensations. They’re serious. They want to wipe me out, turn me into a cock-loving automaton. A year ago, I would have scoffed at the notion as much as I do at human trafficking, a boogeyman I believe is meant to keep us womenfolk in line. Yet here I am, already a slave to my own lust by fucking Biff, and about to be taken further down the rabbit hole!

We’re wiping her mind.

I want to scream, to let out a wild scream to tell everyone that I’m still here, that I’m still me, but it’s like a dream where all your movements are too slow, where you’re moving through molasses. Is this what it feels like to drown, to be submerged in this water that rushes into every nook and every cranny and fills your lungs and you can’t breathe in any air because you are breathing but all the space it taken by this invader that won’t give you what you desperately need and you shout but all that comes out is more water that immediately gets replaced by more water?

Images are coming in faster and faster now, more precise, and I can tell that Jennie is guiding them now, lost as she is in the throes of her ecstasy—she’s not aware of what’s going on, the poor girl, has no sense that her identity is about to disappear, and even if she were, I’m not entirely sure she would not take it for the latest fucked up kink and savor her own oblivion with one more gate crashing orgasm. And I can understand because it’s getting to me too, I’m still subjected to what she’s subjected to, and I can heed the siren call of desire and part of me wants to dive in and drown.

Images float about me, images of flesh and bodies, male and female, faceless, formless, touching themselves, each other, fucking every way possible, as the droning in my ears has gone from a song-like mantra to actual music to a strangely soothing white noise that sounds like I’m listening to multiple voices at once, one on top of each other, some singing, some whispering, shouting, groaning—“Fuck that cunt… I’m a horny little slut… I’m yours, Master… My mouth or my ass?… Please hurt me… Please love me… Please let me obey you…”

And they’re all my voice.

It’s getting to me, how can it not, this subjugation of emotions? I’m responding, nowhere near as strongly as Jennie of course—this is so much her, so much targeted to her weakness, that she’s a moth heading straight into the flame. She was built up by Biff, piece by piece, as the perfect sexpot, ready to drop her panties at the flick of a finger, offer herself to whomever Biff chose, willing to follow her Master to the end of the earth and back, a creature of pure lust, and here she is given lust to spare, in crashing waves.

She’s lost to the world, overwhelmed by everything, by those hands all over our bodies, ghostly hands, some soft, some harsh, groping, tweaking, pressing, poking, invading, while cocks enter us through every opening, and Jennie is on a long never-ending orgasm, moaning and groaning and screaming her pretty head off in time with the crescendo of sound and images that permeate everything.

That’s when the fucking begins.

I know immediately that I’m getting fucked for real, that something hard is pressing into my pussy for real, and Jennie also of course notices but she’s either too far gone to know the difference between getting fucked in the head and getting fucked in the body, or she doesn’t care. She responds by just going even crazier, and I have to admit it feels oh so fucking good.

It starts slowly, a warm hard pressure against my pussy lips—my hot little cunt—vibrating softly, a pressure that eventually enters me slowly and Jennie goes nuts and wants to start impaling herself like mad but of course she can’t and I feel the same need and the same pleasure and I want to feel that hard shaft deep inside me.

Slowly, it pushes in. It’s artificial, I can tell, because really nothing feels like a real human cock—a delicious hard bar of throbbing male flesh to be worshipped like a god—but it’s effective nonetheless and it sinks into me without any difficulty because I’m so wet that I must be drenching whatever I’m lying on.

Jennie snaps when the shaft is fully embedded inside us, and I can feel it, huge and throbbing and hot and cold and all bits in between, filling me like I can’t breathe—and her orgasm reaches a peak and her screams shift into a higher almost impossible register and I can’t tell if it’s pleasure or pain or something else but I know without a shadow of a doubt that she’s not coming back from wherever what’s being done to us is doing—she’s going to drown into that numbing scream of apocalyptic pleasure and it’s with an orgasm that she’ll swallow her last lungful of sanity.

And then the fucking goes into high gear, the shaft pumping in and out, and I can’t concentrate anymore. Jennie takes over, and I just sit back, and watch, and feel, and groan in pleasure.

I sink into Jennie’s fantasy, helpless.

Faceless men are all around me, groping me, pawing me, their hands grasping my breasts, squeezing them hard, mauling them, their hands on my ass, on my pussy, on my legs, caressing and slapping and raking their nails over my sensitive skin, their fingers invading me, in my mouth, in my pussy, in my ass—in and out, in and out—and Jennie’s there with me the whole time, teammates in this blood sport, and she wants to scream some more but as soon as she opens her—our—mouth there’s a cock—two? three?—pressing in and we’re choking but we suck because the taste is amazing and that’s were here to do—SUCK! WORSHIP! OBEY!

And very soon we’re being mounted, our ass raised and penetrated by a large cock that pummels in, the faceless body behind it hammering with arresting strength, every thrust sending us slamming into the cock that’s fucking deep into our throat and we’re bouncing around like a rag doll and it’s unlike anything I’ve ever felt—I don’t know when I’ve started coming, but I haven’t stopped since, it’s been waves after waves of pleasure—and those faceless bodies, male and female, never give me a chance to recover, never give me a chance to catch my breath, they just take me over the hump over and over again and I let them because I’m drunk on pleasure—SERVE! WORSHIP! OBEY!

After I don’t know how long—did I black out?—I’m on my back, my legs spread impossibly wide and tied to posts all around us, unable to cover myself: an offering, a wanton display, an invitation to just take me and use me without any consideration for what I want because I want it all, I love it all, I’m the girl that will do anything for cock, and there’s another faceless man between my legs plowing into me, fucking me with hard punishing thrusts, over and over, his body a river of muscles, and I soak it all up and Jennie’s in a continual moan now, a drooling idiot, her brain fucked out of her.

I’m glad the bitch is gone. I’m all they have now, those faceless bodies, those strong muscular shapes that seek nothing but to sink their appendages into my soft wet warm flesh. I wrap my legs around the faceless body o n top of me—I’m not tied up anymore it seems—and I pull him close and my breasts are clamoring for his attention. I want him to grab them, hurt them, use them as he sees fit, because they’re his. I’m all his, to do as he wishes. A slave to his needs, his desires, his fancies.

There’s a steady chorus of voices that I’ve been ignoring but that I focus on now, a steady stream of dirty talk, some describing what we’re doing, other whispered voices calling me a slut, a whore, a cum bucket, a cock sleeve, a fuck rag, a slag, a thing, a doll, flesh, meat, holes, and I know they’re right and I bask in their description because it is me, I am all of that and more.

And when they tell me that I’m such a good girl for obeying, for serving, for worshipping, that I will be rewarded, that I will be loved, that I will be saved, that all I have to do is give in and offer myself, my heart, my soul, let it all go for the pleasure of my Masters, for the will of my Masters, for the whims of my Masters, I close my eyes and want to give myself over to the feelings that this faceless man is nailing right into me.

And the man must have picked up on it, because he starts slamming into me harder and I can’t believe he’s not ripping something inside me and tearing me apart for it’s painful but the pain is pleasure and the pleasure is that of being a pussy, nothing more than a pussy—a pussy and a pair of tits, and a mouth and an ass, and the faceless man growls and I can hear him mutter and tell me how good my tight fucking cunt feels wrapped around his cock and that he’s going to fuck me to the bone and that he’s going to ruin me for everyone else and when my pussy is but bloodied flesh he’s going to turn to my ass next and then I’m going to scream for real and I won’t be able to spend a single day of my life without a fucking cock up my tight ass and there’s something in the way he says it that cuts through my lusty haze and even as I pull him close and shudder in my never-ending orgasm I try to focus on the man’s face and even as he starts slapping my tits—fuck that feels so fucking good and my cunt starts squeezing him like mad and what won’t he just come and drown me with his cum?—his features dances and twist and resolve somewhat and then it’s Biff on top of me taking me the way he always loved to do, taking me like he was punishing me with that cocky grin plastered all over his face that told me how pleased he was to sink his cock into the tight juicy cunt of Jennifer Hansen and to show her that really all she was good for was to spread her legs and get fucked.

“You like it, doll?” His voice was unmistakeable—dripping with conceit, like I was doing this because I wanted to, which of course he’s right because I do. “Tell me how much you like me boning you… go on… tell me…”

Jennie squeals like I’ve never heard a human being squeal before—Biff’s presence must be the only thing able to cut through whatever mind-destroying loop she was caught in—and I can hear her scream her agreement and her screams turn into screeches as she snaps and her screams become part of the background again and Jennie is no more and suddenly I’m all alone and Biff is fucking me harder telling he’s going to come all over my face and my tits and that’s just the beginning because that’s how things are going to be for the ret of my life—SERVE! WORSHIP! OBEY!—I’ll be his fucking slave all over again, with no hope of rescue, no chance to escape, nowhere to go, nobody to be but his fuck doll.

I can’t help fuck back against him, but I close my eyes ever as he leans down and bites one of my nipples so hard that I’m sure he’s bit it clean off and it sends an incredible bolt from my clit down to my soul even as I try to wish him away and wander about helplessly looking for something to hold on to and then I open my eyes again and Biff’s still there fucking me hard, his eyes peering into me, but he’s not Biff any longer.

Richard. Richard Sanderson. The nurse at the Institute, the one who helped me, the one who liked me, and he’s smiling at me and it is not a smile like Biff’s but one full of care and lust and confusion and he fucks me just as hard and it feels just as good if not better and I’ve still got my legs wrapped around him and I pull him close and he kisses me and I let him as grateful relief washes over me even as we buck together and he carries me over yet another orgasmic wave and he’s trying to say something and I have to focus and he’s asking me to get on my hands and knees so that he can fuck me from behind like a bitch in heat and that he wants to stare at my ass as he fucks me and he’s coarse and he’s turning me on and there’s that strange feeling inside me like I passed by something important and it’s Richard but it’s not Richard and I’m having difficulty thinking but Richard is key and I pull him close again and kiss him hard this time sending my tongue deep down his throat while I rub my whole body against his and we’re glued like that for minutes—hours? days?—and when I pull back it’s not Richard any longer, nor Biff, but Daniel fucking me.

Daniel! The shock frightens me.

He’s on top of me, staring at me with one of his typical little smiles on his face, the one that says that he knows what I’m thinking even before I do and in this case he may not be wrong.

Daniel! Biff took me away from him. Snatched me away from him, without a second thought. Daniel. My boyfriend. My fiancé. The love of my life, soulmate. I know it’s cliché to say that when I’m young, but you know those things when they happen. You can’t not know them.

Daniel! My heart leaps and the cries and the voices for a second fade away and I really I must have said it out loud and his smiles grows wider and he nods as if I did good, the exact right thing I was supposed to do, and he’s fucking me as well, like everyone has been doing, but he’s careful, controlled, and my body goes along with this new rhythm like it is the most natural in the world, and it is.

Daniel! He proposed to me before Christmas last year—I think it was last year, when are we anyway?—and I said yes. And he was willing to follow me to Texas when I got my Blumburry Fellowship, back in my old life, back when I looked forward to write and become a legal and analyst—whichever one panned out first. But that was before. Daniel, the Blumburry, the law and English, that was all before. Before Biff. Before Biff turned into a fuck doll.

“Hi love,” he says, looking at me deep in the eyes, and it’s his voice, and I melt and I kiss him and hug him and I think I’m either crying or laughing, screaming my head off because the orgasm that rips through me upon hearing his words is more intense than any that have preceded it, and Daniel has to hang on for dear life—his cock never leaving the cozy confines of my pussy—as I buck and waiver and undulate underneath him.

When I come down, I’m no longer on the bed—or whatever it was I was on before. I’m on the sidelines, watching someone—is it me? it looks like me—getting taken over and over again by a swarm of naked faceless men and women, buzzing around that body like vultures around offals, and it’s like a bad porn movie but I can feel the effects of all that sex and I know it’s still me up there but this time it’s subdued, indirect, and it’s not Jennie getting fucked because Jennie’s gone and I don’t know who it is but I know everything is okay because Daniel is next to me and nothing bad can happen when he’s there.

And he’s right there, lying or sitting or floating beside me, and he’s naked but he’s casual about it and he has his gentle smile on his face and the surge of love and relief that courses through me serves to remind me of how lost and alone I have felt since Biff snatched me and fucked with me.

“You didn’t forget about me,” I say. It’s not a question, more a statement of disbelief.

“Never would, love. You know that. I’d look for you to the ends of the earth and beyond.”

And I know he’s right, because I would do exactly the same. “Take me away from here.” The words rush out of my mouth before I can censor them, and I cringe when I hear the need and the ache that laces them. Then again, if anyone can see me weak without judging me, it’s Daniel. He takes me as I am and accept me, the good and the bad. He always has.

“I can’t, love. I’m not really here, and you know that as well as I do. This is all in your head.”

I nod. Of course, he’s right. I look back at the scene in front of us, all around us, the mind-numbing display of sex in all shapes or forms, my body out there bucking and fucking and doing its best impersonation of a porn star on crack, doing everything and asking for more in a voice that is mine but that I can’t recognize. In the background, I can hear instructions, telling me to act this way and that, to be good, to obey, to acknowledge my masters.

“They’re destroying my mind.”

Daniel chuckles, and pulls me close. It feels better than the myriad of orgasms that have racked me earlier, that are already fading away.

“Well, clearly not, because you’re here,” he says.

I pause, look at him. The way he emphasized you gave me an idea. “Jennie.”

Daniel smiles and nods. “She took the brunt of it. The main personality that evolved from what Biff did to you, and that’s what the reprogramming found and destroyed. Pretty thoroughly, too.”

“How do you know about Jennie?”

“Because I’m not really me, silly. I’m really you.”

“Oh.” Of course. “Am I going crazy?”

Daniel laughs, that laugh I remember so well, that laugh that I sought out many nights when needing to feel better about the world, or just because it put a smile on my face like nothing else could.

“Not yet, but if you don’t find somewhere safe to go, I can’t promise anything. Whatever they’ve given you is powerful stuff.”

“I’m safe with you.”

He shakes his head. “I can’t stay. And I’m not safe enough for you. I’m too intertwined with what happened with Biff and all that crap. I’m too close to the surface of your thoughts, too obvious. No, you have to find somewhere safer to hide, somewhere from way back.”

And I know there’s a door behind me now and I can even guess where it led, but I don’t want to go. I know Daniel does not exist here, that this is just my mind trying to save itself, my subconscious trying to understand everything that’s going on around me and everything that’s happening to me and interpreting it in the best way it knows how and I should listen to it—to myself.

“Come with me! Stay with me.” Again, the need, the ache.

“I can’t. But don’t worry, I’ll find you. I won’t give up.”

“Promise?” I’m crying now, shamelessly.

“I promise, love. Now go.”

And I go while I have the strength, after kissing Daniel and avoiding the sight of my body fornicating away doing things that I did not know human bodies could do, blocking out the sounds and the voices that are getting louder and telling me to listen to them and obey them and submit to them and I can feel the pull of that body out there, getting overwhelmed with lust and pleasure and pain and sweet oblivion and in a flash I’m through the door and I slam it behind me.

Silence, except for birds in the distance.

I knew what I would find. It’s my old room, back home, the room where I grew up, decorated like I remember. I had forgotten most of the details, but never forgot the feelings. There’s a beautiful Maine early Fall light outside. And I know in my heart that this is how my room was the months after Mom split up from my father and had kicked him out. She told me that I would always be safe here and of course she was right. This is home, in a way deeper than I can ever hope to express.

I crawl onto my old bed, onto the handcrafted quilt that came from my Mom’s mother, and hug Steady, my large plushie turtle, who has seen me through so many childhood crises. I know I’m safe, curled up in a ball, clutching Steady, knowing that Mom will eventually bring me some hot coco before dinner, while outside the door the sounds of unholy fornication continue unabashed.

I fall asleep.

Monday, May 4, 2015

Update on the Adjusters #60

Still here, still alive, still writing. Putting the finishing touches to #60 — one last scene to clean up. No clue how this one's turning out. I'm way too close to it at the moment.

It's still going to be a few days though. So in the meantime, keep yourself entertained with the following stories which held my attention in April.

Update: Here are the links. Both involve a future reality where bad things happen, for lack of a better term.

Why I Love My Job by HandsInTheDark: “I capture a new secretary and teach her the rules.” Some nice dark ideas and scenes, especially when it comes to the sort of addictive drugs that are developed by The Company. The sort of thing I wish I had thought of...

Secrets of the New World Order by Bjmichaels: “Open your eyes people! This is happening now!” Not as dark as the above, or at least, not as cynically dark as the above. Probably because the initial main character is such an idiot that he makes you want to root for the ideology that he's clearly a strawman for. But if you manage to overlook that bit, there are some nice ideas in there, sharing a lot with the SelectaCorp world, except more, shall we say, gender equitable.